Check This Out - Indoctrinate U

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: Evan Coyne Maloney on “Indoctrinate U” (http://hotair.com/archives/2007/03/18/video-evan-coyne-maloney-on-indoctrinate-u/)

Veteran right-wing blog readers will remember him for playing a memorable prank (http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2004/03/24/pin-the-tale-on-the-donkeys) on clueless anti-war protesters and conducting some amateur anthropology research on Inauguration Day 2005 (http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2005/01/26/stop-bitching-start-a-revolution). Since then he’s been working on a full-length documentary about the liberal hivemind on college campuses.

Trailer - Indoctrinate U - Our Education, Their Politics (http://www.indoctrinate-u.com/intro/)

[Maggie_T]

Indoctrinate U. That is the same name as David Horowitz' new book.

IAC, it is scary. If democracy is what allowed our universities to become commie indoctrination camps, then I don't know that I'm too enthralled with democracy.

Yes, I said it. Sue me.

[DesertFox]

No.

[DesertFox]

Also, the libs' are ruining it with their captive audiences in the universities. Kids are so turned off with the too-obvious bullshit that the lib fanatics are actually producing conservatives. Even kids who lean liberal are shunning the Left. They show up leaning one way or the other but with truly open minds, and the ugliness of the Left just pushes them away.

[noncom]

IAC, it is scary. If democracy is what allowed our universities to become commie indoctrination camps, then I don't know that I'm too enthralled with democracy.
Eh, it's bad, but it's better than the alternative. The old system of only educating the upper class was sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy: the powerful stayed in power, and a lot of human potential was lost. Back when 90% of human labor was spent in feeding ourselves, this was ok, even necessary. But in today's world we can't afford to do that anymore.

Egalitarian access to higher education has an unavoidable side effect: it produces a class of people who are good at being students - and not necessarily good at anything else. Sure that's a pain, but we can't throw the baby out with the bathwater. We can't legislate a solution to that problem; what we need to do is eliminate the market for it. People need to learn that the phrase "academic achievement" is an oxymoron. Schools are there to teach you what you need to know to begin learning a trade; not so that students and teachers can impress each other.

I'm constantly amazed at how these liberal arts weenies worship their professors. As an engineering student, we used to make fun of and even pity teachers - because they were all a bunch of losers who couldn't get real jobs. But in many liberal arts fields, teaching is pretty much the ONLY way to actually make a living that uses any of the nonsense the inbred "scholars" teach themselves in their academic version of a circle jerk.

It might sound counter-intuitive, but the only way to fix colleges in America is to first fix primary education. As an employer, I am forced to consider a college degree - even in some nonsensical major - a plus, not because any of the curriculum is necessary for the job, but simply because a high school degree today means practically nothing.

Yes, the rats' nests our colleges have devolved into at least partly involves market forces, but the real underlying problem is caused by Socialist activism: turning our PRIMARY schools into dysfunctional nurseries.

Mark my words: If a high school diploma could once again become a certificate of employability, these liberal arts merry-go-rounds would dry up and blow away. The students wasting their time extending their childhoods could get productive jobs, and their Pied Piper Marxist professors would have to quit writing books no one ever reads, and trade in their tweed jackets and pipes for paper hats and spatulas.

[DesertFox]

Well said.

[Bluemoon_Rising]

It might sound counter-intuitive, but the only way to fix colleges in America is to first fix primary education.

Exactly. But it must begin at the elementary level. The entire public education system must be reformed, and there is but one solution: universal choice. That's the fix.